Carpet Layers Knee Problems

Compared with workers who rarely kneel niosh found that carpet layers have high frequencies of bursitis of the knee fluid buildup requiring knee aspirations skin infections of the knee and a variety of other knee disorders.

Carpet layers knee problems.

It is suggested that these entities resemble housemaid s knee. The knee is tender to touch although the pain and swelling do not hamper motion of knee. A cross sectional study of a historical cohort. Members of a carpet layers union required knee surgery evacuation of knee effusions and treatment of repeated joint infection.

Jensen lk rytter s marott jl and bonde jp. The carpet layer usually owns his own knee kicker which costs about 100. This condition can develop either due to pressure or a direct injury to the knee. Prepatellar bursitis is an inflammation of the prepatellar bursa at the front of the knee.

Identification of these two risk factors provides opportunities for prevention. Carpet layers spend approximately 75 percent of their workday kneeling according to niosh estimates putting a significant amount of pressure on their knees. It is marked by swelling at the knee which can be tender to the touch and which generally does not restrict the knee s range of motion it can be extremely painful and disabling as long as the underlying condition persists. Trauma to the knee can be acute or chronic.

Both kneeling and use of the knee kicker contribute significantly to the high frequency of carpet layers knee disorders. Morbidity from repetitive knee trauma in carpet and floor layers. Relationship between years in the trade and the development of radiographic knee osteoarthritis and mri detected meniscal tears and bursitis in floor layers. Such workers strike a knee kicker used to stretch the carpet with the suprapatellar area of their knees.